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 Kanluwen wrote:

PhantomViper wrote:
I thought Aleph was getting Diomedes this month, what gives?

There was the statement that Diomedes had some kind of issues which is why he was delayed from December to January; might still have problems.

That is probably it then.

Thanks for the clarification.

Really like those Briscards, there is something very old fashioned looking about them! Can't quite put my finger on what it is, but whatever I think the French faction for Araidna have some of the nicest models going now in between these, the Merovingian pack and Loup Garos they released before.

That Yu Jing hacker is gorgeous as well - again interesting to see the difference in style and design aesthetic between that model and the Nomad. The former being very understated, the latter much more of a 'Wooooo look at me! I'm the best!' I guess whatever floats your boat

 BobbaFett wrote:


Briscards



Celestial Guard



Wildcats with HRL



ALEPH Support Pack



Gao-Rael with Spitfire

I forgot to do an "actual" review rather than just kneejerk at the Wildcat.

Briscards: Fantastic. They look very professional, they look similar without being carbon copies, and they have a good spread of equipment.
Celestial Guard Hacker: I like. That's a good hacking pose and I hope we see more of it.
Wildcat with HRL: *glare* It's the jackpot of things I hate. I'm starting to wonder if Corvus Belli considers rocket launchers as fashion accessories rather than weapons, because almost none of the RL equipped models are actually posed like they're firing the damn things.
ALEPH Support Pack: Excellent thing; if only it had been released sooner.
Gao-Rael with Spitfire: I like. It may be an overused pose, but it's a good one and it works here with his offhand machete.

PhantomViper wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

PhantomViper wrote:
I thought Aleph was getting Diomedes this month, what gives?

There was the statement that Diomedes had some kind of issues which is why he was delayed from December to January; might still have problems.

That is probably it then.

Thanks for the clarification.

Rumours say that the original Diomedes miniature suffered a few production/mould/whatever issues and they have to make it again.

I actually like the pose but feel that it doesn't fit with a Wildcat. It's a rockstar pose acknowledging your fans, or challenging your opponent. An Lhost that's used for showfights will fit that pose more, I think.

I also like the pointing Briscard.

I'm happy with all of them.

#1 the CG Hacker. I need him and it's really good.
#2 The Wildcat great to me. I love it FOR the pointing finger. Like she's Babe Ruth pointing out a home run. I think the thing about the drain pipe arm is nit picking and it's probably closer to reality than you think with that material she's wearing.
#3 Briscards. I love the beards. I'd love to see them in a white winter camo pattern.
#4 Gao-Rael. he's pretty cool but still doesn't do it for me. Yes the wildcat is not holding the HRL with both hands but then neither is he with a spitfire.

To be absolutely fair, we've already had the discussion on Spitfires being held one handed.

There's actually a somewhat reasonable possible explanation given that a Spitfire is an "assaulty" weapon and most of the models holding/firing them one handed are wearing some form of powered armor--of which Symbiotic Armor is an example.

 BobbaFett wrote:

PhantomViper wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

PhantomViper wrote:
I thought Aleph was getting Diomedes this month, what gives?

There was the statement that Diomedes had some kind of issues which is why he was delayed from December to January; might still have problems.

That is probably it then.

Thanks for the clarification.

Rumours say that the original Diomedes miniature suffered a few production/mould/whatever issues and they have to make it again.

Wait... you're saying that a mini company is actually trying to make its product the best it can before releasing it? I'm shocked, and happy I gave up my previous addiction!

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:

 BobbaFett wrote:

PhantomViper wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

PhantomViper wrote:
I thought Aleph was getting Diomedes this month, what gives?

There was the statement that Diomedes had some kind of issues which is why he was delayed from December to January; might still have problems.

That is probably it then.

Thanks for the clarification.

Rumours say that the original Diomedes miniature suffered a few production/mould/whatever issues and they have to make it again.

Wait... you're saying that a mini company is actually trying to make its product the best it can before releasing it? I'm shocked, and happy I gave up my previous addiction!

I hate to break it to you, but this isn't like the "Finecast" issue. This would not have been problems with miscasts, etc.

This would have been problems like the model would not actually cast correctly. It would be something like the old Inquisitor 54mm Vindicare Sniper, which was tearing the molds apart every 20 or so castings.

 Kanluwen wrote:
To be absolutely fair, we've already had the discussion on Spitfires being held one handed.

There's actually a somewhat reasonable possible explanation given that a Spitfire is an "assaulty" weapon and most of the models holding/firing them one handed are wearing some form of powered armor--of which Symbiotic Armor is an example.

Ya.. I kinda skipped those posts because of the new stuff I'm sure there's plenty of good reasons, but when almost all of the figs with a spitfire are not holding it with two hands, it bugs me. I took a quick look and found only 3 out of all of them that have come out.

 CDK wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
To be absolutely fair, we've already had the discussion on Spitfires being held one handed.

There's actually a somewhat reasonable possible explanation given that a Spitfire is an "assaulty" weapon and most of the models holding/firing them one handed are wearing some form of powered armor--of which Symbiotic Armor is an example.

Ya.. I kinda skipped those posts because of the new stuff I'm sure there's plenty of good reasons, but when almost all of the figs with a spitfire are not holding it with two hands, it bugs me. I took a quick look and found only 3 out of all of them that have come out.

Im just waiting for the Molotok to come out and hoping that they are held in two hands (they dont have the excuse that Ariadna has hi-tech powered armour...)

Fantastic new releases.

Personally I like how wildcat is, no issue with the HRL, I really doubt it is that heavy with meta materials, composites and micro missiles the load cannot be that big, the pose on the other hand is fantastic, i think it follows a trend were missile and rocket equipped models seem to enjoy their kills.

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
Fantastic new releases.

Personally I like how wildcat is, no issue with the HRL, I really doubt it is that heavy with meta materials, composites and micro missiles the load cannot be that big, the pose on the other hand is fantastic, i think it follows a trend were missile and rocket equipped models seem to enjoy their kills.

If you said the trend was "overbalanced and silly poses for missile and rocket equipped models", you'd be right.

As it is the Wildcat HRL is just another poor "I GOT YOU!" pose combined with a fashion statement of the new Nomad "Heavy Rocket Launcher Spring Collection"


And just to make it clear here:
The Wildcat is awful. Awful. Awful. AWFUL.

They could not pay me to use that model.

its Autumn collection and what problem do you have with "I got you" poses?

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
its Autumn collection and what problem do you have with "I got you" poses?

Where to start...

They're almost exclusively on female models, they're almost always accompanied by some ridiculous bit which delineates them even further from their male counterparts (Naga Sniper v. Hacker), and they are almost always done in such a way that they are virtually unconvertable.

Try converting the Naga Sniper so that she doesn't suck sometime. You'll end up wasting the model since they decided to actually have her hair attached to the gun, along with the backpack.

I really liek the wildcat model, only gripe is it doesn't feel like Corregidor. Paint it white and it's be a great bakuinin model. Take off the hair and it feels right, which is perfect since that hair will look great on riot grrls

Win win in my book

One problem with the wildcat's arm is the placement of the shoulder pad, and the elbow pad. Visually, they remove the joints and accentuate the curved, boneless appearance. The "ribbing" doesn't help. The ribs should have been horizontal and vertical, with a sharp transition at the elbow. Instead, they slowly curve during the whole arm, like spokes on a wheel. If it hadn't been painted with such high contrast, with almost white highlights on a black background, it would have been much less obvious.

But overall I like them all, especially the Yu Jing hacker.

BOOM! Problem solved and killed two birds with one stone for me. Thanks CB for the hair!



Thanks Levitas!

You have just sold both of those models to me

Not bad photo work there!

 Pacific wrote:
You have just sold both of those models to me

Yep, it's an ingenious idea! That way they'll look so much better when they are blasted to bits by the just warriors of mother Aleph.

 Pacific wrote:
You have just sold both of those models to me

Exactly - well done!

Loving the Briscards too for this month...

 Revenent Reiko wrote:

 CDK wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
To be absolutely fair, we've already had the discussion on Spitfires being held one handed.

There's actually a somewhat reasonable possible explanation given that a Spitfire is an "assaulty" weapon and most of the models holding/firing them one handed are wearing some form of powered armor--of which Symbiotic Armor is an example.

Ya.. I kinda skipped those posts because of the new stuff I'm sure there's plenty of good reasons, but when almost all of the figs with a spitfire are not holding it with two hands, it bugs me. I took a quick look and found only 3 out of all of them that have come out.

Im just waiting for the Molotok to come out and hoping that they are held in two hands (they dont have the excuse that Ariadna has hi-tech powered armour...)

No, they just are masters of weapon technology. There the only human faction able to make Autocannon a infantry weapons, do to there recoil improvements and micro technology.

Noir wrote:

 Revenent Reiko wrote:

 CDK wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
To be absolutely fair, we've already had the discussion on Spitfires being held one handed.

There's actually a somewhat reasonable possible explanation given that a Spitfire is an "assaulty" weapon and most of the models holding/firing them one handed are wearing some form of powered armor--of which Symbiotic Armor is an example.

Ya.. I kinda skipped those posts because of the new stuff I'm sure there's plenty of good reasons, but when almost all of the figs with a spitfire are not holding it with two hands, it bugs me. I took a quick look and found only 3 out of all of them that have come out.

Im just waiting for the Molotok to come out and hoping that they are held in two hands (they dont have the excuse that Ariadna has hi-tech powered armour...)

No, they just are masters of weapon technology. There the only human faction able to make Autocannon a infantry weapons, do to there recoil improvements and micro technology.

It's more likely because they're the only human faction which doesn't have access to MULTI HMGs or HMCs...

You see the same thing with the Morat, who have Autocannons on the Kurgat.

I prefer to think of it the same way Noir does, with Ariadna being the secretly super high-tech faction

EDIT: On a less jokey point, one of the reasons i love the Tankhunter model so much is because he has both hands on the gun and looks like he means business...none of this one handed assault weapon rubbish with the Spitfire (even though the answer given makes sense, dont start! ), or the RL/HRL poses that do seem to be becoming a trend...not a bad thing for the Sekhban as he pulls it off, but i dont think the Agema, Wildcat, or even the Briscard really manage it completely (thankfully the rest of the model easily makes up for it with the Briscard IMO)

 Kanluwen wrote:

Noir wrote:

 Revenent Reiko wrote:

 CDK wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
To be absolutely fair, we've already had the discussion on Spitfires being held one handed.

There's actually a somewhat reasonable possible explanation given that a Spitfire is an "assaulty" weapon and most of the models holding/firing them one handed are wearing some form of powered armor--of which Symbiotic Armor is an example.

Ya.. I kinda skipped those posts because of the new stuff I'm sure there's plenty of good reasons, but when almost all of the figs with a spitfire are not holding it with two hands, it bugs me. I took a quick look and found only 3 out of all of them that have come out.

Im just waiting for the Molotok to come out and hoping that they are held in two hands (they dont have the excuse that Ariadna has hi-tech powered armour...)

No, they just are masters of weapon technology. There the only human faction able to make Autocannon a infantry weapons, do to there recoil improvements and micro technology.

It's more likely because they're the only human faction which doesn't have access to MULTI HMGs or HMCs...

You see the same thing with the Morat, who have Autocannons on the Kurgat.

Or you know, it could be out right stated in the book that is why they have the Autocannon. Advanced micro weapon tech and recoil tech.

Thats actually a good point Noir, forgot that was in there...

Scrub wrote:Everything looks superb, as usual, other than the Wildcat, looks like it has a drainpipe for an arm!

Baalirock wrote:I'll be the first to say it...

What's with the Wildcat's rocket launcher arm? I like her design apart from that. Aleph support pack looks very sleek, too.

So did the Kan Man, apparently!

I have no problem with models having 'non-firing' poses.

No problem at all!

Also, that pic above is... actually... making me consider purchasing the Riot Grrls!

Remember Ariadna are backwater to Infinity's standards, they are way more hi tech than we currently are.

I kind of like the Wildcat pose. Basically doing a finger gun 'Bang' at whatever was just hit by the rocket.

But yeah, that bendy straw arm puts me off.